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		apitman on March 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling... One limitation is SSE is text-only, so you can't efficiently send binary data. You have to encode it as base64 or similar.

niutech on March 23, 2024 [–]

There is another alternative to base64: https://github.com/luciopaiva/binary-sse

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